Lecturing at UC Berkeley Extensions on "The Nature of Mind" and "A History of Knowledge".

1997-Present: New Media Editor

Providing and managing the entire content of Thymos.com, a website devoted to Cognitive Science as well the entire content of www.scaruffi.com, a website that includes sections on history, music, cinema, philosophy, etc.
A major feature of the former is the annotated bibliography on mind, consciousness and life, one of the largest on the web.

2002-2005: Leonardo, Board Member

Helped Leonardo ISAST (www.leonardo.info) design events to bridge the gap between the arts and the sciences

1989-Present: Author

Published five books on Cognitive Science (latest: "The Nature of Consciousness", 2006), nine books on Music (latest "A History of Jazz Music", 2007), two on History (latest "A History of Silicon Valley", 2013), three of original Poetry, and contributed to several popular science magazines and daily newspapers.

Research on adaptive, self-organizing systems and theories of consciousness. Produced a comprehensive on-line bibliography of books related to mind, life and consciousness.

1991-1995: Manager, Olivetti Scientific Center, Cupertino

Established the Olivetti Scientific Center, with operations in the Silicon Valley and Italy. Research projects included knowledge-based systems, neural networks, natural language processing. Staff of 62 engineers.

Established the Olivetti Artificial Intelligence Center, with operations in Italy and California. Manager of both sites, reporting directly to the vice-president of R&D. Helped shape the center as the company's technological bridge to the international research community (started cooperative research programs between Olivetti and universities worldwide). Research projects included knowledge-based systems, neural networks, natural language processing. Joint projects with Yale, CalTech and Stanford.